Quote Originally Posted by overgrowthegovt
JaggedEdge...

Eugenics: belief in it results in a genocidal nightmare.
When eugenics was first proposed, do you believe people foresaw genocide?

Global warming: belief in it results in a cleaner environment. Even if you don't believe that humans are responsible for the shift, what's wrong with doing our best to improve matters?
As I said before, a lot of the times people try and help the environment, but they only end up causing more harm. Nothing is wrong with improving our environment, assuming it doesn't result in our quality of life decreasing. The solutions people are proposing these day's will do absolutely that.


What harm can it do? As for the DDT, it softened the shells of birds' eggs to a dangerous degree, and is generally abhorrent for the world's species. Sometimes there is a bigger picture than humans and their petty striving.
I honestly have trouble believing your serious here... You honestly believe we should save the lives of birds over humans. You would trade human lives for those of birds? Why bother attempting to cure any disease? I'm actually at a lose for words over this one... Maybe one day you will be lucky enough to die of malaria, I say lucky, because at least you will be saving the lives of some birds....


I think it to be an egregious problem that most people seem to pick an ideology (in your case libertarianism) and then stubbornly interpret absolutely everything along those lines.
Your argument supports my view of global warming perfectly. Thank you. Your right, people don't look at the facts because they simply follow their ideological leaders; no need for them to think for themselves.



I too resent paternalistic government and checks to freedom...typically. I believe your average citizen to be just too fucking stupid to be allowed to decide something as momentous as the earth's future.
So we allow government officials to make these decisions. Why are our politicians special? Do you honestly believe that all these stupid and ignorant people would not vote their own kind into office?